Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-06-17

mouse VIII gnaw throngh.
If manuring in the hill is to be done
at all, the best plan is to apply before
planting the seed, taking pains to work
thoroughly into the soil.
Those who have tried it find that
broom corn is good and successful crop
at the South. Experimenters, however,
admit they have many thing tp1earn.
Puro-bred dairy cows are yet high,
though much cheaper than formerly. A
dairyman who starts with selected grade
cows and pure-bred bull Of good pcdi-
gree will find the course best adapted toa
limited purse.
If your garden plot is selected, rake
over and burn up every vestige of grass
and weeds, SO as to destroy not only seeds
but insects. A covering of stYaw, leaves
or stalks, burned over the ground will be
an advantage.
With vines, such as mtlons, squashes,
cucumbers, if the supply of manure is
small and it is desired to derive the
largest amount of benefit for one season,
manuring in the hill may be probably
resorted to.
In bulletin issued from the Ohio ex-
pertinent station, DR.. Lazenby says that
the experimental test for the past two
years shows that the yield of corn is les
sened often by too frequent and improp-
er use of the cultivator.
The small shoots around the trunk of
apple trees should be closely pruned as
also any from the center of the trees on
the larger limbs. This, with too rapidly
growing trees, is often good method
to set them to fruit bearing.
An Ohio farmer says orchard grass
will grow thicker coating of muck than
any grass he knows, hence he recommends
it as best for meadows that are liable to
overflow. Red-top will outlive all the
rest of the grasses under water.
1t is only the poultry-keeper who
makes pets of the flock, and knows the
individual points of each one, who can
attain success. Selection and "the sur
vival of the fittest" tell in the business of
egg production as in other things.
Despite some prejudice, as well as some
valid objections, against pork, says the
Chicago Times, it continues to be used as
an article of diet more largely than any
other meat. 1t is easily kept and fat
tened, even by those who have very little
room.
A prominent nurseryman says that nur.
sery practices in peach propagation and
culture have weakened the vital power of
the tree, which is unable to resist as de-
pressing influences as formerly, when
trees from seedlings grew well and lived
to old age.
An apiarist says: A pound of bees in
early spring, with good queen and a
liberal use of comb foundation in the
brood chamber and sections, will rapidly
build up into good colony, and if the
season is favorable will store considerable
honey during the summer.
1t is said that the pear blight does not
occur either on the continent of Europe,
or in Great Britain. In America it has
subsidized as an epidemic, but it still &C.
ours in many places. This disease of the
pear tree is a mystery which has hither-
to puzzled horticulturists.
Water is often impure when its impur-
ity is not mistrusted. Impurity is caused
mainly by drainage. Typhoid fever and
other kindred diseases have been spread
by drainage into wells. Wells subjected
to injury by drainage should be careful
ly cemented around the upper parts.
An experienced Canadian farmer says
"The day is not far distant when great
changes in our methods of treatment of
lands will take place, but it will not be
until the principles, as we'll as the advan-
tages of under-graining and deep and
thorough cultivation of the soil are fair
ly we'll understood by the farming COM
munity."
A successful poultry raiser feeds wheat
in the morning, barley at noon, and
wheat in the evening. In addition tc
the barley he gives the slops and refuse
from the Kitchen after boiling it. The
wheat gives a rich yellow color to the
yolks, which is so much desired in the
city where eggs are sold in retail markets
He says one great mistake many CHECKER
raisers make is in feeding chickens too
much, and this accounts for their becom
ing diseased.
Old apple trees, especially if unthrifty
often have much loose bark on thei
trunks. This is, however, only symptor
of unthrift, and scraping it off will no
make the tree fruitful unless it is ma
nured and we'll cared for otherwise. Ont
incidental advantage from scraping thi
rough bark is that many codling moth
make this their hiding place and will
thus be destroyed. To accomplish thi
result the work should be done early, a
least as soon as the trees blossom and a
much earlier as possible.
If you want to get rid of Canada this
, ties, first make the land as rich as posi-
: Bile, and then seed it down to clover o
) some similar crop. By manuring heavil.
get an early crop and NOW for hay jus
as soon as the thistles begin to blossom
After moving apply little stimulating
5 fertilizer to quickly start up the grass
+ When it is about a foot high pillow tn
3 land with pillow that will turn over al
8 the soil. Then roll down and harrow, 81
| as to cover the thistles root and branch
A A few thistles will probably show them
selves afterward, but cut them down a
5 once with q sharp hoe or cultivator, AM
s your field will soon be cleared and read
G for almost any crop in the spring.
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